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Joining the list has certainly increased my awareness of PD. As Wendy said, we (my family) thought that the only symptom/minus point of PD was the tremor (and we only knew poeple with hand tremors). It did seem as if it was a cosmetic thing (if only it were!). We were watching one of the Michael J Fox movies and I told my husband what I'd read on the list about him having PD- and he was surprised. His first reaction was 'But he is so very young!' Alzheimer's got a bit boost from Ronald Reagan- IMHO. My brother watched a PBS documentary on his life and told me that he was glad that my father had PD and not Alzheimers- he said that with Alz. the person slipped in and out of his old self and that it was very heart-breaking... But on an aside it certianly helped spread teh word on the disease. And you know how PBS documentaries are- they get shown again and again.